LSB queries Covid-19 regulations

This comes after the ministry issued a press release that directed that the issuing authority in respect of permits for legal practitioners is the Registrar of the High Court in respect of litigation matters and the Ministry as regards other non-litigation urgent matters.

LSB said while in terms of the Emergency Powers (Covid-19) Regulations of 2020, legal practitioners are classified as essential, it is absurd that the ministry has subjected the granting of permits to instances which the Registrar or the Ministry, in their wisdom, deem to be urgent.